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Peter Christie
Peter Christie
Peter Christie is a science journalist and author who writes frequently about conservation, climate change, and other pressing issues in environmental science. A former reporter and editor with newspapers in Asia and North America, he is the author of more than half a dozen books about wildlife and climate change for adults and children. His most recent book is “Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction.”

George Monbiot was shocked to see the speed with which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threw a spanner in the global food system, as he had foreseen. It’s time for a radical change, he argues.

We humans can extend our abilities by understanding the ‘more than human’ powers of plants and animals, argues James Bridle, a visual artist, writer and follower of technology.

In a global calamity unfolding before our eyes, the collapse of insect species spells doom for every life form on Earth, including humans, as author and journalist Oliver Milman spells out.

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You can’t put a price on the awe that natures evokes, and it is that which is our most valuable asset in the battle to rescue the planet’s biodiversity.

Henry Mance has produced a compelling review of the contradictory ways we humans see animals – as food or products, as entertainment, as essential to Earth’s ecological balance, as indispensable companions.

The global obesity epidemic, labour abuses, biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas emissions from burning the forests of Malaysia and Indonesia – palm oil has a lot to answer for, a new book explains.